Thursday, January 29, 2015

Owe no one anything, except to love one another

"Owe no one anything , except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law." ~Romans 13:8
Do you realize that if we loved one another with all our heart, soul, mind and strength we wouldn't need money?
 We would always constantly be on the lookout to serve every need of one another and no one would lack anything, most of all compassion. My mind is blown with the thought that God, Himself, as Jesus, loves us in that very manner. He loved His own Father so greatly that He gave up His very life to save His lowly children, thereby proving that His love for sinners extends to every throb of the heart, deepest extent of the soul, loftiest consideration of the mind and greatest feat of strength! Love is the only eternal currency and Jesus used it to fully pay the debt of our failures before God. And this is how Christ paid the debt of love for us:

"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross." ~Colossians 2:13-14

Friday, January 23, 2015

To even speak of God's love is to debase it

It is well known that God, in His divine providence, chooses to entrust the most essential, lovely and eternal truth of His nature to the most dejected, ugly and ephemeral of all agents; namely, mankind. It is thus the most incredible of doctrines that, of all the forms Christ may have taken to reveal Himself, He chose the form of mankind to do so. How Satan must have licked his chops when he saw his greatest Adversary descend from His throne in heaven in the weakest form of man; a form which Satan had enjoyed almost free reign over from the time of Adam until the Great Coming. What a great mystery revealed in Isaiah 40:

And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
    and all flesh shall see it together.
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
A voice says, "Cry!"
    And I said, "What shall I cry?"
All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades
    when the breath of the LORD blows on it;
    surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.

What greater mystery could there be than for the very Creator of the universe to come in the most humble form of His creation, the very form of which was said to be passing away as a mist when the sun arises? The flesh of Christ was imbued with the very essence of divinity so that every curse and blessing in the scriptures would be fulfilled in Him! He would bear both the curse of mortal flesh through nails and a crown of thorns, and the blessing of eternal life through His resurrection into a glorified body! As Acts 2 states:

"Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery."

It is good, Lord, that before our lips could ever utter praises to you, you knew them all completely. Who are we that you are mindful of us? Our flesh is not of your substance; how can we worship you? Our very words are base and defiled and fully incapable of praising your name; yet you accept them. They are fleeting yet you make your throne upon the praise of your children. You love our very frames and find pleasing our humble and tiny offerings. What can we give that you have not already given to us in full?

Thank you for your great love for us! Thank you for placing eternity into our hearts; for knowing us from eternity past; for engraving our names upon your hands and your heart; for writing your character onto our hearts! Such things are too great to comprehend. Eternity is not long enough to praise your holy name!